![]() ![]() Ultimately, sounds more like a solo project than anything else, and it walks a decidedly different path than the albums that preceded it - there are no charging rockers in the manner of 'Drank Like a River' or 'Yesterday's News,' and the country twang of 'Too Drunk to Dream' or 'Someone Remembers the Rose' has receded into the background (though Cary's violin and occasional mandolin or steel guitar lines from Daly do add a high-lonesome undertow to several songs, especially the plaintive 'Sit and Listen to the Rain' and 'My Hometown'). Multi-instrumentalist and percussionist/producer dominated the sessions' sprawling cast of players, with and popping up on some tracks. Had ceased to be a band in the truest sense by the time they recorded their third (and final) full-length album, the group began to collapse during the touring following Strangers' Almanac, with members coming and going at a remarkable pace, and for the sessions, the only musicians on hand who had appeared on three years earlier were lead vocalist and songwriter and violinist and backing vocalist.
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